Two Suits.
The AI exoskeleton I built for my wife's business — and how you build your own in about thirty minutes.
What this is — and what it does for you.
Two Suits is a free, open toolkit — and the story behind it — for putting AI to work on your real job. Not AI that replaces you: the kind you strap on like an exoskeleton, that makes you faster and stronger at the work you already do. That's the suit.
Follow the series and, in about thirty minutes with no coding background, you fit your own — a real, working setup that handles the repetitive parts of your work. Not a tutorial you close and forget. The actual thing, running.
The first suit was for my wife. She runs a business — workshops, family events, a calendar full of bookings — and its day-to-day admin was eating our evenings. So I built her one. This series is that story, and the keys to build your own.
Pick the door that fits your moment.
Same world, four registers — pick by what you want right now.
Start Here.
The friendly walkthrough. Eleven cinematic stages, ~30 minutes, no jargon — your first suit fitted by the last page.
The Story.
The full origin, in prose. Three acts, first-person — the night the suit was built and the morning she stopped working past midnight.
The Builder's Guide.
The architecture as a map. Eleven stations, three modes per stop — the technical companion for peers in the industry.
The Graphic Novel.
The cinematic companion. Nineteen pages, three acts, painterly throughout — the story you can see.
The Showcase.
See what the exoskeleton built — a real production business in screenshots: public site, web admin, native iOS, the whole stack visible.
A real love story. A real piece of software. A real way for anyone to do it too.
My wife runs a business. She's a face and body painter — workshops, magic hours, family events. Every booking has a calendar slot, every customer a history, every quote a signature. The work of her work is the work I used to spend my evenings on.
So I built her an exoskeleton — an AI stack that thinks alongside her, handles the boring parts, and gives our evenings back. This series tells that story — and gives you the keys to fit your own.
The film.
A short cinematic piece — the same story, the same characters, but moving. The day. The night. The build. The morning she got her time back.
Drops when it's ready. No release date yet — but it's already in the room.
Exoskeleton — the skill bundle.
Two Suits is the story. Exoskeleton is what does the work. A set of six Claude Code skills (also dual-target for Codex CLI) that bootstrap the whole operator-architect stack into any project in one command.
Christian Merkel
I'm not a coder by training. I'm a pattern-seer who has spent twenty years watching teams build software, and a husband who got tired of his wife working past midnight. Two Suits is my answer to both.
I live between Miami, Karlsruhe, and Tel Aviv. I build AI exoskeletons for businesses. One stack at a time.